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Henry Ireton (died 1711) Henry Ireton (c. 1652 – 1711), of Williamstrip, Gloucestershire, was an English Army officer, landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1711. Ireton was the only son of General Henry Ireton of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire and his wife Bridget Cromwell, daughter ...
By his wife, Bridget Cromwell, Ireton left one son, Henry Ireton (circa 1652–1711), and four daughters, one of whom, Bridget Bendish (she married Thomas Bendish in 1670) is said to have compromised herself in the Rye House Plot of 1683, as did Henry. Ireton's widow Bridget afterward married General Charles Fleetwood.
Ireton, Henry, a distinguished general and statesman of the English Commonwealth, who served in Ireland, was born at Attenton, in Nottinghamshire, in 1610. He married Cromwell's daughter Bridget. On 15th August 1649 he sailed from Milford for Dublin as Major-General in command of one division of Cromwell's army, and served through the campaigns of the autumn and spring.
Henry Ireton's Remonstrance of the Army has an assured place in the rich historiography of the English Civil War as a text that promises insights into the most revolutionary months of England's history.
Died: 1651. Key Significance. Henry Ireton was a minor gentleman from Attenborough in Nottinghamshire. He joined the Parliamentary army and served in Cromwell’s regiment of horse, rising to become Commissary General in 1645. He took part in the Putney Debates in 1647, where he opposed the Levellers, and was one of the commissioners who signed ...
IRETON, HENRY (1611–1651), English parliamentary general, eldest son of German Ireton of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, was baptized on the 3rd of November 1611, became a gentleman commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1626, graduated B.A. in 1629, and entered the Middle Temple the same year. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the parliamentary army, fought at Edgehill and at ...
Background. Earlier that summer Sir Thomas Fairfax, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Oliver Cromwell (then Member of Parliament for Cambridge and second-in-command), Henry Ireton (Cromwell's son-in-law) and other officers, known as the "Grandees", attempted to negotiate an inclusive settlement with Charles I of England in the aftermath of the First English Civil War.
